“The Johnny Cash Show” only ran for two seasons, from 1969-71, but its influence has endured: Josh Rouse patterned his new video for “Some Days I’m Golden All Night” from Bob Dylan’s performance on Episode One. The clip premieres today on Speakeasy.

Rouse even pays homage to Dylan’s attire, dressing in a similar looking dark suit with an open-collar white shirt. Though the video is a nod to Cash and Dylan, the wry, reflective song, a lilting number adorned with strings and steel guitar, calls to mind another star of the era.

Glen Campbell’s two oldest children, Debby Campbell-Cloyd and Travis Campbell, have filed a petition in a Nashville court to try and remove control of the singer’s financial and medical decisions away from his wife Kim Campbell, according to the Associated Press.

The country/pop singer, best known for hits like “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Witchita Lineman” who’s currently residing in a Nashville Alzheimer’s treatment facility full-time. Read More »

When the Best Original Song Oscar category is announced this Sunday night, it’ll be a bittersweet moment for country icon Glen Campbell. He’s up for his first Academy Award for “I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” a song he co-wrote with producer Julian Raymond. The song appeared in “Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me,” the 2014 documentary about his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and his final tour.

The recording of “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” was Campbell’s last time in the studio, where he logged time with old recording buddies the Wrecking Crew. Raymond got the idea for the song as the movie was being made; he pitched the idea to director James Keach, who ended up using the day they spent recording as one of the film’s final scenes. Read More »

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The 87th annual Academy Award nominations arrived this morning and while the film world is abuzz over the nine nominations “Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” each received, the Best Original Song category yielded a few wild cards that will make for an interesting match-up on Oscar Sunday. Aside from Diane Warren, who received her seventh nomination, four out of the five on the list are first-time Oscar nominees. Get to know the Academy Award-nominated songwriters and the music. Read More »

When Glen Campbell was releasing hit singles in the late 1960s and ’70s, it was standard practice to sweeten up country songs with big, gooey string arrangements like the ones that sweep through “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston” or “Rhinestone Cowboy.” They were distinctive, sure, but they also had a way of masking the power of the songs that Campbell so artfully performed.

His new album, “See You There,” pares down the arrangements and casts eight of Campbell’s hits in a simpler, more intimate light. The album, premiering today on Speakeasy, also includes four songs Campbell cut during sessions for his 2011 album, “Ghost on the Canvas,” which is when he recorded new vocal takes on his classic songs. Surfdog Records founder Dave Kaplan and longtime collaborator Dave Darling enlisted musicians to complement them with subtle, rootsy arrangements that lay bare an elegiac quality on songs like “Gentle on My Mind” or “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.”

Gone are the cheesy strings, replaced with steel guitar on “Wichita Lineman” and “True Grit,” and acoustic slide guitar on “Galveston.” “See You There” also offers two versions of the newer gospel-style song, “Waiting on the Comin’ of My Lord,” a song that takes on an added resonance in light of Campbell’s 2011 diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, which led to an extensive farewell tour that wrapped up in 2012. It seems unlikely that the singer and guitarist, now 77, has many albums left. Hearing him give his all one more time on “Rhinestone Cowboy,” accompanied only by sparse electric guitar, is a deeply poignant way to say farewell. Read More »

Two weeks ago, actress and singer Patti LuPone grabbed a cell phone out of the hand of an audience member who was texting during a performance of her current play, "Shows for Days." The bold move led to an outpouring of support from fans fed up with glowing screens. Ms. LuPone gives us her five rules of theater etiquette.